Reader, Mr. ROBERT HARRIS
THE publication of the ' Lyrical Ballads' of JL Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798 marked a definite revolution in English poetry, and ' The Ancient Mariner' (which was the longest and probably the most important poem in the book) was a new and startling phenomenon in the world of odes and elegies where the classicists held sway. This lovely, ballad, one of the most beautiful tales of ' faery ' in the language, will form the matter of the reading this afternoon.